Yeah, from a purely mathematical perspective I think the latter group you mention are, technically, correct.

But as you allude, and as most people recognize at least from a ‘pop culture’ perspective, we most readily identify beginnings and endings of decades by virtue of a change in the ‘tens’ column.

So, if someone were to say they were “born in the 60s”, the vast majority of folks would interpret that to be somewhere between the beginning of 1960 and the end of 1969.

I recall that discussion came up in late 1999 about the milinium rollover; some saying THAT wouldn’t really happen until 1-1-2001.


Earl

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